Living gears found in little bug’s legs.
This was all over Reddit and ScienceDaily today, because it’s cool. Biologists have found the first example of machine-like gears in a living organism, a […]
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreNATO creates electronic-stopping beam.
The Telegraph is comparing it to a James Bond movie – a ray that makes any electronic devices in range stop working: Scientists from the […]
Tiny diamonds zap cancer.
PhysOrg has the brilliant news about using itty bitty flecks of precious stones to boost the power of medication to treat exceptionally stubborn cases of […]
Kamikaze moon robot back on track.
The Register is watching the skies as LADEE, NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer probe, heads for its ultimate fate: LADEE took off atop […]
Science Art: Fulleride Cs3C60 by Dmitri Zaitsev and Joffe Ilya Naftolevich
This is a buckyball crystal, a form of carbon that no one had ever seen until the 1980s. Now, it’s starting to get used in […]
Sleep makes the brain cells grow.
BBC has one good reason to get a good night’s sleep tonight – because sleep boosts the number of healthy brain cells in yer head: […]
Apollo legend dishes dirt on NASA.
Or at least speaks his mind, now that he’s retired. Houston Chronicle lets Chris Kraft, NASA’s first flight director, put it all out there on […]
Graphene makes *different* computer chips.
University of California, Riverside, researchers have made a very small breakthrough in the way computers work… one that might lead to big changes soon. They’re […]
Science Art: “How to Get Ahead in Science? Simple.” Jim Kelly, Houston Press, August 19, 1991.
Ever since the Buckyball story broke big last year, Rice University chemist Rick Smalley has been getting the phone calls. Rick, they say, this is […]
They’re growing miniature human brains from stem cells.
Reuters plunges headlong into THE FUTURE with Austrian researchers who are growing miniature brains – “cerebral organoids” – from stem cells: To create their brain […]
Science Art: Catafalque at a Funeral at Hubbatale, ca. 1925 from “Mortuary ritual of the Badagas of Southern India” by Paul Hockings.
Found on Archive.org’s collection of Fieldiana. A “catafalque” is a kind of dais on which a coffin rests when it’s on display, as for a […]
Thinking about science makes us better people.
Scientific American shies away from putting it that bluntly, but still. Psychologists at UC Santa Barbara found that just considering the scientific method, in all […]
NASA engages the warp drive.
Space.com brings us hurtling into the future with the science of quantum thrusters… a real-life warp drive: A warp-drive-enabled spacecraft would look like a football […]
Death is slow. Slower than we thought.
Discovery takes a long look at a slow death… watching life leave cell by cell… bit by bit: David Gems from the Institute of Health […]
Overseer of the longest experiment has passed on.
RIP, John Mainstone, custodian of the Pitch Drop Experiment. Solid or liquid, it will continue to ooze so slowly. New Straits Times marks the